Apple wants your iPod to stop charging for thieves

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paragraph @ Jul 28th 2007 8:27PM

Yes, but there is another issue here, apple will (if they have brains) sell chargers for the new iPods, meaning that an thief could just simply buy one of these (probably obscenely priced) chargers from an apple store or the internet and BAM this 'invention' in now rendered moot.

But then again, apple could refuse to sell the charger to anyone but the registered owner to the registered address... but no-one ever fills out registration cards. Or they could just not sell replacement chargers, meaning that if you lost the ability to charge, then now you need a new iPod.

anyways, this will hopefully never come into practice because it make absolutly no sense, to require a password, PIN, or other means of encryption just to CHARGE an Mp3 Player is the definition of pointless/useless.

oh and what about this: instead of charging the iPod, why not steal all of the music, sell it, and buy an iPod?

you can see where this is going, this makes as much sense as having a copy of your operating system verified to make sure it's real just to download direct X . . . yeah

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